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ok /lit/, who is the greatest author of all time?
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ok /lit/, who is the greatest author of all time?
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W. Shakespeare
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>>7490466
I was reading that he invented over 1700 words

>invented words

just let that sink in
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Brandon Sanderson desu
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>>7490479
Try explaining why that matters.

Also, many of those words weren't complete inventions. For example, he invented "to knee" as a verb but not "knee" as a noun.
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best dramatist: William Shakespeare
best novelist: Virginia Woolf
best short story writer: Amy Hempel
best poet: ???
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P R O U S T
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John green
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>>7491025
>fragile bourgeois gay jew
>best writer ever
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>>7491058
>insults everything besides his writing
>thinks he's made a point about his writing

Plebs are arriving in droves
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>people not saying Shakespeare
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R.L. Stine
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Shakespeare, Dante and Tolstoy.
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Dante, Goethe, Shakespeare.
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Shakespeare. Greatest work of literature of all time? Paradise Lost.
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>>7490565
>Women
A fine kek to you sir.
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>>7490459
murakami
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